Direct pressure arrived before protected transit could return them to a cleared holding.Damian felt it first through the limited feeds—a residual-grade spike ahead of the protocol corridor, too tight and too fast for residual liaison noise, too clean for hierarchical pursuit elements already assigned to the closure site’s outer ring. The unbound Eclipse current shifted under Lyra’s skin in the same breath. The silver markings on her arms held a low, even light. Through the tempered continuity she received his assessment without speech: intercept formation, residual-constraint geography chosen to sit just outside primary advisory escort density, timing aimed at the gap between formal protection and continuous hierarchical presence.“They’re committing,” Damian said. “Not a probe. A residual-grade strike package on the protected corridor’s thin stretch. Hierarchical escort is still rear-covering from the closure site. Primary advisory sensors will see it—late if the strike is fast enou
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